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The Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing will be closing after Saturday, October 11! The museum will be closed during the exhibition change over, and then reopen with two new exhibitions on October 24.

Sophie Olmsted

Artist’s statement

Oct

7

Music in the Museum: Jeremy Felton ’26, Fiddle and a Friend

Senior Jeremy Felton will be performing with a Fiddle and a Friend in the museum! The performance is free for all to attend.

Oct

10

Music in the Museum: Mazie Watson Chamberlin ’27

Mazie Watson Chamberlin will be singing and playing acoustic guitar in the museum. This is a great opportunity to experience the Steadman Show one last time…

Oct

10

Closing Reception & Gallery Talk with Andrea Harris

All good things must come to an end; help us celebrate a wonderful run of the exhibition Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing on the exhibition’s penultimate day.…

Oct

11

Last Day to See Ralph Steadman Exhibition!

Oct

24

Opening Reception: American Studio Ceramics and the art of Shellburne Thurber

Please join us in celebrating the opening of the Fall 2025 exhibitions, Precision and Expression: American Studio Ceramics from the Collection of E. John Bullard…

Nov

5

Artist Talk: Ceramicist Lisa Orr

Studio potter and educator Lisa Orr, whose work is featured in the exhibition Precision and Expression: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection will discuss…

Nov

11

Gallery Talk: Shellburne Thurber & Samantha Sigmon

Join artist Shellburne Thurber and exhibition curator Samantha Sigmon for a discussion of the works presented in the exhibition Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle.

Bates News

October 2, 2025

The way back Bates machine

Staff at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library love giving walking tours of the campus. They function like walking Bates encyclopedias, dropping tidbits about everything from which building was the first one on Frye Street to which are the oldest trees on campus.

October 2, 2025

‘Rising Star’ Marshall Hatch Jr. ’10 is on …

Marshall Hatch ’10 received a lot of texts on Sept. 30. Not surprising, given that at the crack of dawn, Time magazine announced its TIME 100 NEXT, naming him one of “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars” for 2025.

October 2, 2025

Meet new Bates faculty from physics and astronomy, classical …

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News will introduce them in groups over this semester.